So, I haven’t really moved on or heard anything that really inspires me since. I think there is a lot of good music out there being lost because, as I said before, all the air is being sucked out of it.VIDEO: Lamb of God releases new album & video for ‘Gears’Garry: We all kind of met at parties at various times really. I already had one song on the record so I was ok there but I would have had two of my songs on the record which was pretty rare in those days of writing songs verses Andrew Farriss & Michael Hutchence, who were the main song writers for INXS for most of my life. (He was given his double-Gary nickname after his name was misprinted on the first album.) Drummer Jon Farriss would soon join the recording sessions, contributing percussion on one track. I totally agree. Garry Gary Beers.
They seem to get all the attention because that’s all they want, whereas real artists don’t really want the attention as much as they want the respect and want to be heard.Garry: I do. Bass guitarist Gary Garry Beers collaborated with ARIA award winning Sydney band Absent Friends during 1989. Our fourth member is Sebastian Gregory, who played with The Veronicas and he was a mate of Toby’s and was playing with Toby when I met him. With Toby & Jimmy we have the perfect situation where we are all there for the right reasons – Toby was very excited to be in a band where he could write the lyrics he always wanted to write and say what he wanted to say.Garry: As you well know, Perth was a big part of our early days building up to INXS so I’m sure when we get out there, we’ll throw some INXS songs in there too.
‘Mosquito’ started off as a bass riff I had and then Toby grabbed an acoustic and we wrote the song on the spot. As a band, AshenMoon play a version of ‘Immigrant Song’ and Toby is probably one of the only guys on the planet that can sing it. I actually do remember that gig. Dave Loblaw has done the album cover as well as the single covers… he’s just a perfect part of our band now, very much like Roger Dean was a big part of YES. We did it for a reason and later on you started to see a lot of other artists doing the same because its an important way to reconnect & get your mojo back. Such a great record.Obviously, he’s worked with different song writing partners and producers who have kind of said, “nah” and they’ve made it more about them and not about him, whereas I just wanted him to make it all about him. I know the whole download thing is the way things are, but I just love holding something physical – even if it’s a CD because they are just so easy.
Music has always been such a good healer for people and I really hope our music can help people to get through it somehow just as much as anyone else’s music. 2,338 Followers, 41 Following, 38 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Garry Beers (@garrygarybeers) The rest of the album is not defined by ‘Dustbowl’ & ‘Mosquito’, it’s a very diversified album with songs that are almost psychedelic Beatles-ish to Massive Attack to straight up rock n’ roll songs. There’s an album by Genesis called ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’ and it’s the last record they made with Peter Gabriel. We wrote it as a record, like an old school Zeppelin style record where it is a journey from beginning to end. I was like, “Really? And three… maybe one of The Beatles. There was Andrew (Farriss), Michael (Hutchence), me, a hippy drummer called Neil (Sanders) and another mate of ours from high school on guitar so it was very embryonic, as it was back in the day.